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Real Responds to Apple's Hacking Claims

Posted by michael on from the she-said dept.

ack154 writes "An article on VNUNet gives a sharp response from Real regarding Apple's recent claims of Real using "hacker tactics" to allow music from the Real store to play on the iPod. Real states: 'Compatibility, choice and quality are critically important to consumers and Harmony provides all of these to users of the iPod and over 70 other music devices including those from Creative, Rio, iRiver and others.' The article goes on to outline what they say is a 'clear precedent' for what they have done. And in case you were under a rock it all seemed to start here earlier this week."

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  1. Memo to Real by commander+salamander · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dear Real:

    We don't need your crappy 'music store' and its 3 paying customers. Take your 70 supported devices, each of which have about 0.3% market share, and go play in a food processor.

    Your friend,
    Steve

    P.S. No one gives two shits about Helix either!

    --
    Is this rock and roll, or a form of state control?
    1. Re:Memo to Real by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Dear Steve:

      We don't need your crappy 'operating system' and its 3 paying customers. Take your 70 applicaiton programs, each of which have about 2% market share, and go commit ritual sucide by getting in bed with the music industry.

      Your friend,
      The silent majority

  2. Re:Compatibility, choice and quality by alienw · · Score: 0, Troll

    At least Real is better than Quicktime for Windows. Talk about a buggy piece of shit...

  3. Logical Thinking... by sparkster812 · · Score: -1, Troll

    As far as I'm concerned, anybody who purchased an iPod who buys music online is going to likely be using the iTunes music store. Okay, so RealPlayer may have higher quality files, but on a mobile player with headphones and background noise, is anybody going to notice a slight difference? Very doubtful.

    RealPlayer has been nothing but horrible bloatware since around version 5 or so, and this seems to me like an attempt to get more people to use their horrible products. They can take that line about compatibility and shove it right up their ass - I can't use RealPlayer files in anything BUT RealPlayer and installing that thing is a nightmare - one false move and it takes over all of your file extensions and everything else. Who the hell wants that? At least Microsoft made Media Player for the Macintosh AND there are other programs that can handle WinMedia files!

    I'm not quite sure where this will go legally right now, but Apple has every right to block this in the next iPod software update. Real is crossing into territory that doesn't belong to them, and I do feel that their behavior is completely unethical.

    Regardless, I'm sure most of you are thinking that Real is on it's way out, and I hope to hell it happens.

  4. Foreget the FUD, get a free ipod by cmstar · · Score: 0, Troll

    http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=7501 843 click the link, sign up, get 5 friends to sign up and you get a free ipod. Check the forums at gearlive.com if you don't belive me.